Bedroom furniture



W. C. lANlES.

v BEDROOM FURNITURE. APPLICATION FILED SEPI. I5. 1913.

RENEWED IUNE 5,1920.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

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Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLARD c. JAMES, on Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, Ass'IGNoR To FRANK L,

BELKNAP, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BEDROOM FURNITURE.

Application led September 15, 1913,

To ZZ whom if may concern Be it known that l, VILLARD C. JAMES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the County of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Bedroom Furniture, of which the following is a spe iiication.

rlhis invention relates to furniture for various buildings, as hotels, private residences, apartment houses and other houses in which it is desirable to change a living room, reception room, dining room, work room or the like to a sleeping room as occasion requires; and an object is to provide bedroom 'accommodations in such a room adapted for one or two persons occupying one bed or separate beds and to store such bedroom accommodations in a place of concealment with great ease and convenience in a compact and comparatively small space behind a screen, as within a closet.

in object of the invention is to provide a convenience for drummers'who usually display their goods on beds in their-sleeping rooms, and who consequently are put to the trouble of moving their goods from the bed when they wish to retire; ant an object is to make provision whereby a f ummer occupying a room provided with this invention will have one concealable support as a table or ,led upon which to make his display and another support in the form of -a bed which may be concealed during the display and may be brought out of concealment and put to use as occasion requires, thus allowing;l the drummer to occupv the bed inthe same room with the display without disturbing such display, all of this being done if so wished, by an installation which is very desirable Vfor use whererthe room is to be occupied at night by two persons who do not wish to sleep together.

A further object is to provide means whereby me concealable furniture of a bed-v room may be easily changed for accommodation of persons of various tastes and to supply various demands. Y

Llso to adapt concealed bed installation for interchange of beds from apartment to apartment.

YThe inventionmay be'carried out in various ways and l regard it Vas broadly new and pioneer in that l provide a screen, as a single cabinet or closet having a doorway and means, as two sets of swinging bracket Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 789,907.

y Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

Renewed J'une 5, 1920. Serial No. 386,924.

means pivotally mounted on an unshifting vertical axis behind the screen, as in a closet, and a bed and a bedroom accessory device as a bed, a table, a dresser or the like mounted on the swinging brackets respectively; whereby either or both of two beds or a bed and a bedroom accessory may be compactly stored at anytime, and either or both of the beds or the bed and the accessory may be brought into use at pleasure.

The beds with which this invention is best applied are double, single or three quarter up-endable bedsand where twin beds are used they are preferably stored adjacent each other in rip-ended condition ina closet having a doorway of ordinary width.

' lllheresingle beds are thus mounted they are usually of less width than the doorway through which they pass from use position to storage, and vice versa.

' t is thought that the invention may be fully understood by illustration of the twin bed and the bed and dresser installations since in the one instance one of the beds, and in the other instance the dresser may serve as a table and although the dresser from its nature may not be foldable or upA endable, the table proper may be so constructed in perfect accord with the principle of this invention.

The accompanying the invention.

Figure l is a fraginental plan of a manufactored structure equipped with my newlyinvented twin bed furniture; the beds being in storage, Dash and dot lines indicate positions of the beds up-ended and swung out into the room for which the beds are adapted. Dotted lines indicate an intermediate position of the first or front bed.

Fig. 2 is an elevation partly in section on line 022, Figs. l anl'.

Fig. 3 is an elevation line fc3, Figs. l and 2. v

Fig. d is a detail of the bed supporter with fragments of a bedstead and a bracket arm.

lli. 5 is a fragmental plan analogous to `F ig. i in which a dressing case is shown substituted for ene of the twin beds and the parts are adjusted for occupancy of the room as a bedroom. Dot and dash lines indicate a stored position of the dressing case and bed.

Reference will now be made to the twin bed installation Shown in Figs. l, 2, 3 and drawings illustrate partly in Section on A closet 1 may be provided at any suitable place adjoining the room 2 and is prov vided witha suitable doorway 3 and a door A 4 that may be of any appropriate construction, either a sliding or swinging door; a swinging door being shown in the drawings. Fivotal supporting means are provided at a suitable place inside the closet as indicated by the axis 5, which is shown arranged close to one side of and in unshittin'g vertical relation to the doorway 3.

rllwo beds 6, 6 are provided to be stored in a position oi' concealment behind the screen formed by the wall oi the closet, and means adapted to carry the bed from concealment in one position relative to the screen into stations ior use in other positionsrelative to the screen, and vice versa, are provided as hereinafter described.

. The two beds 6, 6 aie similarly constructed and may be of any desirable up-ending form comprising an upright head-board 7 and an up-endable bedstead section 8 pivoted thereto by any suitable means-as a connecting bar 9 and rod 10, and suitable pivots; the bar being pivoted to the head-board at 11 and to the up-endable bed section at 12, and the rod being pivoted to the head-board at 13 and to the up-endable bedstead section 8 at 14, allowing said section 8 to bek turned down and up as usual with up-end- Vable beds.

For convenience of description the beds 6, 6 are termed the rear and front or second and rst beds respectively.

' Said beds are respectively connected with the pivotal supporting means by bracket means shown in the drawings as a relatively short single-arm'bracket and a relatively long multiple joint bracket respectively, there being one or more brackets ifor each bed; each single-arm bracket comprising a -swinging'bracket arm as at 15 and each multiplejoint bracket comprising a plurality of bracket arms as at 16, 17, pivotally connected'together as by the axis 18. A set of two brackets is shown as the bracket means for each bed.

Y The arms 15 may be pivotally connected relative to the head-board 7 oi' the bed 6 by any suitable means as by the bed holder 19 which is shown pivot-ed at 20 to the end of the top bracket arm 15 and provided with a retainer in the form of a stud 21 seated in a hole 22 in the top rail or the head-board 7, which is thus removably mounted on the holder.

lThe multiple-joint bracket is connected with its bed 6 in substantially the manner just described, and by similar bed-holder means which are indicated in the drawings by similar reference characters with an swing to a position adjacent the wall 23 inside the closet when the bed is stored; and the bracket is constructed and arranged to swing around the door post or the edge of the wall to bring the bed to a station adjacent to the outside thereof, said wall practically forming a screen for the stored bed and for the storage chamber formed by the closet, and being one wall of the room 2. The front bed 6 and its bracket means are constructed and arranged to be stored adjacent the rear bed inside the closet, and the purpose of the multiple-joint bracket means is to allow the bed to be inserted into the narrow space between said rear bed and farther wall 24 of the closet; and to allow said front bed 6 to be readily drawn out and swung around adjacent the outside of the wall or screen 23.

The pivotal supporting axis 5 may be mounted in the closet by any suitable bearing means as by the seat 25 fixed to the floor 26, and the eye 27 fixed to an upper support as the wall of the closet.

In practice the building iii which the invention is to be applied may be manufactured in any desired manner and the screen may be constructed as a closet wall or any other desirable screening element, either constructed with or independently of the building; and the pivotal means may be fixed to the building at the time it is manufactured or subsequently, or the pivotal means, brackets and beds may be installed in any closet or other available space in any building already manufactured.

It is evident that although l have shown the closet in the drawings as being quite well filled with the beds and their brackets, that the closet may be of any desired size and swing freely into and out of position when rip-ended, and to this end the bed 6 is shown connected near one edge to the end of the yrelatively short bracket and the bed 6 is shown connected to the end` of its bracket practically mid-way betweenthe edges of the bed.

The bracket arms 15 and 16 that are swung directly on the pivotal axis 5 are provided with bends 28, 29 respectively to accommodate the edge of thecscreen or closet wall. These bends may be of any suitable character to allow satisfactory movement of the brackets in the operation of swinging the beds through the doorway and around the edge thereof out into desired position for use.

When the beds are in the dot and dash position shown in Fig. 1, or in any other non-interfering position in the room, they may be lowered for use in the customary manner, and when again 11p-ended the rear bed 6 will first be swung in behind the screen, and then the front bed 6 will be swung into position adjacent thereto so that when the beds are in concealed or stored position, the headboards are at substantially right angles to the open wall.

The operation of swinging the beds from the concealed or stored position, shown in solid lines in Fig. 1, to the 'exposed or used position shown in dot and dash position in said figure is just the reverse of that just described.

In Fig. 5 a dressing case 30 is shown Vinstalled upon the bed holder 19 in place of one of the twin beds shown in Figs. l and 2. Preferably the dresser 3() -is mounted on the front holder 19 in the place occupied in said figures by the front bed 6 so that the dresser may remain in the room 2 when the bed 6 is stored. It is understood the form and the character of the room Yand screen may vary without changing the Vcharacter of the invention and in F ig. 5 a window 31 not shown in the other views appears in the outside wall 32.

Said dressing case may be provided with a bracket 33A having a hole 34 in which the stud V2,1 of the bed-holder 19 is adapted to seat thus to support the case in a manner similar to the bed 6 shown in Fig. 1.

In this way the bed-room may be variously furnished as occasion requires by simply providing each article of furniture with a suitable mounting for the holders.

Thus it is seen that'the bedsteads and other articles of furniture may be of any desired construction or style and the style may be changed at will by simply lifting the article from its bracket and making the desired substitution.

yI claim 1. The combination with a screen, of pivotal means arranged 'on an unshifting vertical axis, brackets mounted on said means and adapted to swing from one to another position relative to the screen, and up-endable beds vsupported v by vthe brackets respectively and adapted when up-ended to stand adjacent each other on one side of the screen and on a common level and also adapted to swing withsaid bracketsto lanother position for use onV said common level.

2. The combination with a screen, of 'a relatively short bracket 'in pivotal relation to the Screen and a relatively long bracket in pivotal relation to said screen, said pivotal relations being on an unshifting vertical axis and up-endable beds mounted on said brackets respectively, said beds when up-ended being storable adjacent each other on one side of the screen and on a common level and adapted to be swung on said brackets into other positions relative to the screen and on said common level for individual use when lowered.

3. The combination with a screen, of two brackets arranged on an unshifting vertical aXis in pivotal relation to the screen, one of said brackets being double-jointed and longer than the other bracket, and up-endable beds carried by the brackets respectively and storable adjacent each other on one side of the screen and on a common level and adapted to be carried by said brackets to 'other positions relative to the screen and relative to each other, so that they may be brought into position for use adjacent each other and on said common level.

t. The combination with a screen, of two brackets arranged on an unshifting vertical axis in pivotal relation to the screen, one of said brackets being double-jointed and longer than the other bracket, and up-endable beds carried by the brackets respectively and storable adjacent each other on one side of the screen and adapted to be carried by said brackets to other positions relative to the screen and relative to each other, so that they may be brought into position for use side by side of each other; said brackets having bent arms to accommodate the edge of the screen.

5. The combination with a screen, of'two single brackets pivotally arranged on an unshifting vertical axis, one of the brackets having an arm bent to accommodate the edge of the screen, and beds on said brackets respectively, said beds being carried by said brackets and individually Vmoved therewith to positions of storage and use upon opposite sides of said screen and on a common level. Y

6. The combination with a screen, of two articles of furniture adapted to be stored behind the screen, and brackets of different lengths, said brackets being pivotally arranged on an unshifting vertical axis and forming the carrying means for said articles of furniture whereby the latter may be stored adjacent to each other on one side of the screen, and when positioned upon the other side of the screen may be in alinement.

7. Thev combination with a screen having corner walls and a door opening inV one of the walls,"0f\pivotal means arranged on an Vunshifting vert-ical axis adjacent to said opening; brackets mounted on said means and adapted Vto swing from positions inside of said screen lthrough said opening around one edge thereof to positions outside of the screen; and upendable beds respectively supported by said brackets; said beds when upended being adapted to stand adjacent to each other inside of the screen with their headboards at substantially right angles to the open wall, and to swing with said brackets through the door opening and around said edge into positions for use voutside of said screen.

8. The lcombination with a screen having corner walls and a door opening in one of the walls', of pivotal means arrangedon an unshiftiiig vertical axis adjacent to said opening; a relatively short bracket and a relatively long bracket mounted on said means; and upendable beds respectively supported by said brackets, said beds when upended being storable adjacentto each other inside of the screen with their headboards at substantially right angles to the open wall, and adapted to swing with said brackets through said opening and around one edge thereof into positions adaptable-for the use of said beds when lowered outside of said screen.

9. The combination with a screen having corner walls and a door opening in one of the walls; of pivotal means arranged on an unsliifting vertical axis adjacent to said opening; two brackets Amounted on said means; one of said brackets being doublejointed and longer than the other bracket;

Vand upendable beds respectively supported Y by said brackets, said beds when upended being storable adjacent to each other inside of the screen with their headboards at substantially right angles to the open wall, and adapted to be carried by said brackets through said opening and around one edge thereof so that they may be brought into positions adaptable for the use of said beds adjacent to and in alineinent with each other.

10. The combination with a screen having corner walls and a door opening in one of the walls, of pivotal means arranged on an opening;

unshifting vertical axis adjacent to said two brackets mounted on jsaid means, one of said brackets having bent arms to accommodate one edge of the opening and the corner of the screen; and one of said brackets being double-jointed and longer than the other bracket;and upendable beds respectively supported by .Y said brackets; said beds when upendedbeing Y storable adjacent to each other inside of the screen with their headboards at substan-A Y tially right angles tothe open wall; and adapted to be carried Vby said brackets through said opening and aroundsaid edge so that they may be brought into positions Vadaptable for the use of said beds adjacent to and in alinement with each other.

' 11. The combination with a screen having corner walls and a'door opening inl one of the walls; of pivotal means arranged on an unshifting vertical axis adjacent to said opening; a plurality of brackets mounted on said pivotal means; a plurality of furniture articles having faces supported by the respective brackets; said articles being adapted to stand adjacent to one another inside of the screen with their supported faces at substantially right angles to the open wall, and

to swing with said brackets through theA door opening and a corner of the screen; v

beds respectively supported by said brackets; said beds being adapted to stand adjacent to each other inside of the screen with their headboards at substantially right angles to the open wall, and to be moved individually with said brackets through the door opening and around said edge into positions for use outside of said screen. Y

13. The combination with a screen having cornerwalls and a door opening in one of the walls; of pivotal means arranged on an unshifting vertical axis adjacent to said opening; brackets of .different lengths mounted `on said means; two articles of furniture having faces supported by the respective brackets; said articles being storable adjacent to each other inside of the screen and on a common level with their supported lfaces at substantially right angles to the open wall while they are thus supported.

let. The combination witha screen having corner walls and a door opening in one of said walls; of pivotal means arranged on an unshifting vertical axis adjacent to said opening; brackets of different f lengths mounted on said means; two articles of fun n iture having faces supported by the respective brackets; said articles being storable ad jacent to each other inside of the screen with their supported faces at substantially right angles to the open wall, and adapted to be carried with said brackets through the d oor and around oneedge thereof into positions with their supported faces in alinement with each other.

15. The combination with a screen having corner vwalls and a door fopeniiig in one of said walls, of pivotal means arranged on an unshifting vertical axis adjacent to said opening; brackets of different lengths mounted on said means; beds respectively supported by said brackets; said beds being storable adjacent to each other inside of the screen and on a common level, with their lieadboards at substantially right angles to the open Wall, and adapted to swing the said brackets through said opening and around one edge thereofinto other positions outside of said screen and on said common level.

1G. The combination with a screen having corner Walls and a door opening in one of the Walls, of pivotal means arranged on an unshifting vertical axis adjacent to said opening; a plurality o brackets mounted on said means; a plurality of furniture articles having faces supported by the respective brackets; said articles being successively storable adjacent to one another inside of the screen and on a common level, With their supported faces at substantially right angles to the open Wall, While said articles are thus supported by said brackets and the brackets are mounted on saidipivotal aXis.

17. The combination with a screen having corner Walls and a door opening in one of the Walls, of pivotal means arranged on an unshifting vertical aXis adjacent to said opening; a plurality of brackets mounted on said means; a plurality of furniture articles having faces supported by the respective brackets; said articles being storable singly cr successively in multiple adjacent to one another inside orn the screen and on a common level, With their supported faces at substantially right angles to the open Wall, and adapted to swing With said brackets through the door opening and around one edge thereof into positions for use outside of said screen and on said common level, and vice Y versa, While said articles are thus supported by said brackets and the brackets are mounted on said pivotal axis.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at os Angeles, California, this 10th day of September, 1913.

WILLARD C. JAMES.

In presence of- JAMEs R. ToWNsnND, L. BELLE WEAVER. 

